Scott Pittman is one of the foremost teachers of permaculture in the US, has taught the subject extensively worldwide on four continents. He is the founder of the Permaculture Drylands Institute and co-founder of the Permaculture Credit Union. Scott co-taught with the founder of permaculture Bill Mollison, and helped to establish permaculture movement in the US Southwest. His experience includes working with indigenous and traditional people worldwide, design projects that range from backyards to thousand-acre farms and activism in promotion of sustainable living. Scott is the lead teacher for most Permaculture Institute programs and our instructor emeritus, currently in Costa Rica.

“We are in the process of creating a new paradigm and have to eschew the temptation of using the methodology of the old paradigm to achieve our goals… We have to nurture whole system learning and understanding which is the very core of Permaculture.”